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      I will not cry. I will not cry.

Who am I kidding? I’m gonna cry.

This is a week of goodbyes and new beginnings. Today is my daughter’s last day at the daycare she’s attended since she was five months old.

She started in the baby room at one end of the building and has moved up through every classroom, now finishing a year in pre-kindergarten.

Her teachers have advised me (how to get a breastfeeding baby to take a bottle), admonished me (where did Adi learn that “bad” word?), and helped me adjust to all the wonderful and bewildering changes of a child growing, learning and loving.